Marc W.
Heft
Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgery and Diagnostic Sciences
Claude D.
Pepper Center
Professor and
Director
Phone:
352-273-6720
E-mail:
mwheft@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
D.M.D., University of
Pennsylvania,
1974
Ph.D., American
University,
1982
Main
Interests:
My research interests
are in gerontology, sensory aging, geriatric dentistry (oral health in
aging, see web site
for the Florida Dental Care Study), and pain, more specifically,
assessment of pain in humans.
Publications:
Peek, C.W.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
Duncan, R.P., Heft, M.W., and Henretta, J.C. Patterns of change in
self-reported
oral health among dentate adults. Medical Care, 37 (1999), 1237-1248.
Riley, J.L.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
and Heft, M.W. Health care utilization by older adults in
response
to painful orofacial symptoms. Pain, 81 (1999), 67-75.
Heft, M.W.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
Dolan, T.A., and Foerster, U. Restoration fractures, cusp fractures and
root fragments in a diverse sample of adults: 24- month incidence.
JADA,
131 (2000), 1459-1464.
Wise, E.A., Price,
D.D., Heft,
M.W., and Robinson, M.E. Gender role expectations of pain:
Relationship
to experimental pain perception. Submitted to Pain.
Riley, J.L.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
and Heft, M.W. Racial disparities in health care use for
orofacial
pain among older adults. Submitted to Pain.
Heft, M.W.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
Shelton, B.J., and Duncan, R.P. Relationship of dental status,
SES
and oral symptoms to perceived need for care. Submitted to J Dent Res.
Riley, J.L.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
and Heft, M.W. Disparities in orofacial pain: Racial and sex
differences
among older adults. Submitted to Comm Dent Oral Epidemiol.
Riley, J.L.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
and Heft, M.W. Socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in
orofacial
pain. Submitted to J Public Health Dent.
Gilbert, G.H.,
Shah, G.R.,
Shelton, B.J., Heft, M.W., Bradford, E.H., and Chavers, L.S.
Racial
differences in predictors of dental care use and responsiveness to
dental
signs and symptoms. Submitted to HSR: Health Services Research.
Alpaslan, C.,
Dolwick, M.F.,
and Heft, M.W. Five-year retrospective evaluation of
temporomandibular
joint arthrocentesis. In preparation.
Duncan, R.P.,
Gilbert, G.H.,
Peek, C.W., and Heft, M.W. The dynamics of toothache pain and
dental
services utilization: 24-month incidence. Submitted to J
Public
Health Dent
BOOKS/ MONOGRAPHS/
CHAPTERS:
Heft, M.W. and Green
J.G.
Mouth lesions in dermatology. In The Little Black Book of
Dermatology,
2nd Edition. Edited by S.I. Lamberg, Blackwell Science, Boston,
in
press.
Heft, M.W. and
Mariotti, A.J.
Geriatric pharmacology. In Pharmacology and
Therapeutics
for Dentistry, 5th Edition. Edited by J.A. Yagiela, F.J. Dowd,
and
E.A. Neidle, Mosby, St. Louis, 2001, in press.
Heft, M.W. and
Mariotti, A.J.
Geriatric pharmacology. In Dental Clinics of North America,
Clinical Pharmacology Update. Edited by P.A. Moore and E.V.
Hersh,
W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 2002, in press.
